Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age
By: Jeremy McInerney
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: Great courses; Great courses (Videorecording); Great courses (Audiocassette)
Publisher: Teaching Co.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Springfield, Va
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781565858565
Subjects: Hellenism; Civilization; Hellénisme; Civilisation
Notes: Course guidebooks and lecture transcripts for the audio and video series of the same title.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Greeks and Macedonians. Alexander the divine? The blazing star. Alexander : myth and reality. The formation of the kingdoms. Egypt under the early Ptolemies. Alexandria and the Library. The Seleucid realm. Pergamum. Bacteria, the edge of the Hellenistic world. Sculpture. Poetry; title: pt. 2. The Greek novel. Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics. Kingship and legitimacy. Benefaction. The Macabean revolt, part 1. The Macabean revolt, part 2. Rulers and saviors. Economic growth and social unrest. The mood of the Hellenistic Age. Hellenism and the western Mediterranean. The freedom of the Greeks. Pax Romana.